Monday, April 5, 2010

MOURNING

I took pictures of some roses in our garden after going to a little roadside memorial on the corner down by the highway. A little 13 year old girl was struck & killed on Sat. walking home from a friend`s house on the "Point" here.My local news feed mentions a 26 year old male who apparently intentionally tried to crash his vehicle into a utility pole, but lost control & killed the little one. (He is in custody facing murder charges)I was down there this afternoon talking to some of the moms & their children who went to school with her.Her name was Emily Rose Shane.All I can do is post this image in her memory.I did not know her.(I have more images beyond the click.)

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A 4th grader at Jim's school was hit by a truck last Friday; they took him off life support yesterday. So your beautiful rose and the other flowers are a balm for our raw sorrow at the loss of young lives.

That is very sad. I happened to read this today. "These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are... There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence." Emerson